School communities largely embrace masks despite lawsuits
With the school year several months underway and the number of COVID-19 cases increasing across the country, school systems are finding that, for the most part, students, parents and staff are complying with mask policies in areas where they are required. “It’s been...
Rubric for Recovery: For rural communities, it’s all-hands-on-deck to help low-income students
Editor’s note: This is part of a four-part series on the challenges schools are facing during the pandemic trying to advance marginalized students and the creative ways they are trying to teach them online and in-person. In the hour she has between remote...
Gallup: ‘Fragile’ communities don’t think local schools build on student strengths
Dive Brief: A survey conducted by Gallup for the Center for Advancing Opportunity found four in 10 “fragile” community residents — those living in high poverty, with low educational attainment, low employment and low wellbeing — are satisfied or extremely...